Clay animation is one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually Play Dough or plasticine.
MATERIALS NEEDED
Storyboard graphic organizer
Non-drying clay so that it can be manipulated for action shots - varied colors
Utensils for clay work (plastic knives, forks, toothpicks, pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks)
Suggested: boxes to set up the scenes and to store the material when not in use
Cameras and tripods
Computers with timed frame action (iPhoto, iMovie, VideoBlender, iStopMotion, etc.)
We will use four phases to implement slowmation. These are:
Phase 1. Planning: students learn about a concept
Student Activity:
- Choose a topic from the following and brainstorm to provide examples of storytelling techniques. - Plan who (class, group, individual), what (assess something students know or personal research) and how (resources considered such as diagrams, making models, cut outs, number of cameras, tripods, computers). Ideas: Science:
- Animal adaptations (camouflage, mimicry)
- Life cycles (seeds to flower, metamorphosis)
- Moon phases
- Seasons
- Cell division
- Making a scientific discovery Social Studies
- Animate an historical event
- Timeline of events
- Famous speech (record speech for movie) Language Arts
- Design a scene and record a poem,
- Personification
- Figurative language (hyperbole, onamatopoeia) Maths
- Show examples of math operations (addition, multiplication, subtraction and division)
- Show concepts such as fractions, shapes, measurement, elapsed time.
Phase 2. Storyboarding: students break down the concept into its component parts with storyboarding.
- Break the whole concept down into 4-6 major scenes or episodes using the Chunking.pdf file.
- Create a more detailed sketching of each movement using the Sequencing.pdf file.
Student Activity:
- Plan the 20-40 movements for the concept.
- Roles are allocated: story boarder/explanation/script writer, model maker, and photographer.
- Decisions made about use of signs, music, arrows and narration
- Write the narration to accompany the chunking or sequencing sheet.
Phase 3. Construction: students make or use existing models and take photos of them.
Introduction to Slowmation
What is Slowmation
Video clip examples - Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit
Video examples of student work
Discussion
23 October
Day 6 period 4
Group discussion and appoint Group leader
Brainstorming ideas for the movie
Some suggested ideas: topics currently being taught in Science, English and Social Studies
Decide on the learning outcome
30 October
Day 3 period 2
Planning of the story - use either Chunking.pdf or Sequence.pdf
2 November
Day 4 period 4
Storyboarding continued
Narration - script to go with the slowmation Make the playdough at home or alternatively if you want, you can purchase them from the Two dollar shop.
3 November
Day 5 periods 1 and 2
Storyboarding continued
4 November
Day 6 period 4
Construction - photographing the sequences Remember to bring the playdough otherwise you will not be able to start making your models
10 November
Day 3 period 2
Construction - photographing continued
11 November
Day 4 period 4
Construction - photographing concluded
Deconstruction - importing photos into MovieMaker
12 November
Day 5 periods 1 and 2
Deconstruction - editing/sound/text/transitions
13 November
Day 6 period 4
Deconstruction - final editing
19 November
Day 3 period 2
Group Reflections:
Constructive evaluation and analysing the slowmation movie
What did you get out of it? How did you work as a
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group? What was the end product like?
Did you achieve the learning outcome that you had originally planned?
20 November
Day 4 period 4
Reflections completed
Email completed movies and group reflections to Mrs Yeo
Claymation
Clay animation is one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually Play Dough or plasticine.
MATERIALS NEEDED
We will use four phases to implement slowmation. These are:
Phase 1. Planning: students learn about a concept
Student Activity:
- Choose a topic from the following and brainstorm to provide examples of storytelling techniques.- Plan who (class, group, individual), what (assess something students know or personal research) and how (resources considered such as diagrams, making models, cut outs, number of cameras, tripods, computers).
Ideas:
Science:
- Animal adaptations (camouflage, mimicry)
- Life cycles (seeds to flower, metamorphosis)
- Moon phases
- Seasons
- Cell division
- Making a scientific discovery
Social Studies
- Animate an historical event
- Timeline of events
- Famous speech (record speech for movie)
Language Arts
- Design a scene and record a poem,
- Personification
- Figurative language (hyperbole, onamatopoeia)
Maths
- Show examples of math operations (addition, multiplication, subtraction and division)
- Show concepts such as fractions, shapes, measurement, elapsed time.
Phase 2. Storyboarding: students break down the concept into its component parts with storyboarding.
- Break the whole concept down into 4-6 major scenes or episodes using the Chunking.pdf file.
- Create a more detailed sketching of each movement using the Sequencing.pdf file.
Student Activity:
- Plan the 20-40 movements for the concept.
- Roles are allocated: story boarder/explanation/script writer, model maker, and photographer.
- Decisions made about use of signs, music, arrows and narration
- Write the narration to accompany the chunking or sequencing sheet.
Phase 3. Construction: students make or use existing models and take photos of them.
Windows_Movie_Maker_Instructions.pdfPhase 4. Reconstruction: (uploading, editing and narrating)
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What is Slowmation
Video clip examples - Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit
Video examples of student work
Discussion
Day 6 period 4
Brainstorming ideas for the movie
Some suggested ideas: topics currently being taught in Science, English and Social Studies
Decide on the learning outcome
Day 3 period 2
Day 4 period 4
Narration - script to go with the slowmation
Make the playdough at home or alternatively if you want, you can purchase them from the Two dollar shop.
Day 5 periods 1 and 2
Day 6 period 4
Remember to bring the playdough otherwise you will not be able to start making your models
Day 3 period 2
Day 4 period 4
Deconstruction - importing photos into MovieMaker
Day 5 periods 1 and 2
Day 6 period 4
Day 3 period 2
Constructive evaluation and analysing the slowmation movie
What did you get out of it? How did you work as a
Did you achieve the learning outcome that you had originally planned?
Day 4 period 4
Email completed movies and group reflections to Mrs Yeo
Day 5 periods 1 and 2
Videos to Watch on Claymation
Scratch
Google Earth and Voicethread
Sketchup Historical House Project
Jing Project
Claymation Groups